(UPI) – Utility officials in Virginia said 10,000 customers, including at least two schools, were without power for over an hour when a squirrel came into contact with substation equipment.
Dominion Energy spokeswoman Bonita Billingsley Harris said in a Twitter post that the power outage began about 8:45 a.m. Wednesday when a squirrel entered a substation in Virginia Beach.
“The squirrel got between a circuit breaker and a transformer causing a power surge that made the transformer fail,” Harris told WVEC-TV.